CABBAGES GREW THEN ALONG, MAIDEN LANE; Early Dutch Settlers Thus Established the Tradition That They Named the Street.

When the Maiden Lane Historical Society decided to set up a tablet that should mark the ancient street, it was their plan to perpetuate in bronze the tradition of an old lovers' lane, for tradition had it that the girls of the early Dutch days were wont to stroll by the little stream along what was known from the first as t Maagde Paatje, or the Maiden's Path. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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